Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Church. 2 related planning applications.

Methodist Church

WRENN ID
blind-cobble-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1987
Type
Church
Address
Methodist Church, South Street, Manningtree, CO11 1BQ
OS grid reference
TM 107 316
Coordinates
51.94343, 1.0643
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Methodist Church, formerly known as the Wesleyan Chapel, was built around 1807. It features a white brick construction with stone dressings, plastered returns, and a grey slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of five bays, with the upper storeys set back. The ground floor includes pilastered, parapeted, and corniced end bays, each containing a central window with glazing bars and brick surrounds. An open portico is supported by two fluted columns with capitals and bases, which rest on dwarf walls that serve as plinths for the end bays. There is a stepped approach between the columns leading to four panelled doors at the end bays. To the right and left of the central panelled doors are round-headed windows with glazing bars, and above them are round-headed fanlights with glazing bars, flanked by brick pilasters.

On the first floor, the outer bays consist of two stepped blocks, with the outer blocks featuring stone cornices, parapets, and angle pilasters. The taller inner blocks have brick cornices and parapets. A central arcade of three round-headed windows with glazing bars is flanked by pilasters, with a cornice over a frieze that reads "Methodist Church." Above this, a moulded pediment is surmounted by a painted cupola with a square base and sunk chamfered angles, which continues through a moulded cornice to a tall dome topped with an elaborate weathervane and louvres on the main faces.

The full height of the second bay on the returns is plastered, with upper windows featuring glazing bars and margins. The ground floor has a vertically boarded door to the left and a blocked opening to the right. The plastered returns have two storeys and four bays, with an eaves band, pilasters between the windows, and a band below the lower windows. The lower windows are rectangular, while the upper windows have round heads, all with glazing bars and margins.

Local climate

Methodist Church receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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